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All right, it's Mojo in the morning show. There are two things that are holiday related that my wife will never let me participate in. And I want to call her out on this because I don't understand why it becomes such a big issue that we need to do something together as a family. But then when we go to do it together as a family, it's never together. We're just spectating. So hold on one second. I'm going to call her up. One more, I think. Yeah. uh so last night was a festive night in the mojo household hi charles hi how you doing

good how are you fantastic it's nice to talk to you okay what's up

calling because i just wanted to say that you are a beautiful lady and i don't understand this

Don't say lady.

You're a beautiful, sexy mom. You're a beautiful, sexy wife. I want to talk to you about something, okay? And I don't know if this happens in other people's homes. But Chelsea will not let me do two things Christmas-related. Number one, she never lets me wrap gifts. She doesn't trust me, I guess, wrapping gifts, okay? Number two, which was what happened last night, She will not let me decorate the Christmas tree. And I don't understand why it is that in every household, there's always like people coming together with their family and they're decorating Christmas trees as a family, hanging the tinsel and hanging, you know, the lights and all the rest of this stuff. And you won't even let me touch the damn thing.

Well, I guess the first question would be, Chelsea, Were there prior crimes that actually attributed to this policy being put in place?

Well, one year I was really, really, really, really sick at Christmas, and I asked him to wrap a couple of gifts. And I can be a little bit OCD with the way – so that's my own fault. But I came out on Christmas morning, and, I mean, he basically just threw the roll of wrapping paper on there with a little bit of tape. it was okay all right and that's just my thing and by the way if you want to wrap them i have

a ton you can wrap this year okay all right what about the tree you won't let me touch the tree so we luke and i pulled the tree out of the basement we got it out of the crawl space and we bring the tree up and i said oh great okay uh we're gonna decorate the christmas tree and chelsea goes no i'm putting it together and then the tree we did not get decorated like it did not get decorated at all and chelsea's going to joe's jingle ball on friday down in tampa so she's

leaving today so she's put the christmas tree up last night yeah so the tree has no decorations on

it right now it looks beautiful our tree is barren and i said well why don't luke and i decorate the tree no what do you mean no no we're fine what you don't trust us decorating the tree no it's

because the way that they get stored because they're glass ornaments so i have to rewrap every single one, and I don't have the time this year.

No, no, no. You can't have a tree without decorations. Are you going to put it away?

You don't even pick up after yourself. Are you going to put it away?

I will. I'll help put it away.

You are full of it. Never. No. No. And if you want a Christmas tree decorated, Shannon, is your tree decorated? It is. Okay, go visit that one. Come on.

Come on.

You know what you need to do, Chels? You need to do what I do for the kids, because I'm kind of particular about the Christmas tree that's in my living room. So put a tree somewhere else in the house, like in the bedroom or in his bathroom or something, and tell him he can put any ornaments he wants up on that one. That's what I do for the kids.

I have another thing that I have to pick up. Oh, that's true. That's true. Okay. Sorry. I'm tired. I'm old. I'm not doing it anymore.

She did this with the kids. The kids all had their own tree.

They all had their own tree. You can go to town on those.

Our tree looks like the Pinterest tree. And, you know, to me, I want to have, like, the tree like I had when I was a kid. Like, I had a tree that looked like Christmas threw up on it. That's what I want. I want one of those. I've always wanted to have those, you know, those icicles that we used to have, like, when we were kids that would ruin our vacuums.

Oh, the tinsel? Yeah. Okay, so that's my whole entire tree. Really? It's just light?

Just thrown up all over?

It's like a star garland, like a sparkly star garland that I got from Michael's this year. And then I put a whole crack ton of tinsel on it. And that's it. There's no ornaments on the tree in my living room.

You'll be getting that stuff off your rug in Easter time.

Well, Wes said to me the other day, he goes, I'm afraid to ask you this question, but I want to ask a question. Please don't be offended. I'm just a dumb guy. Is your tree done being decorated? And I was like, yes! This is what it looks like. But it's just covered in tinsel this year. That's what I did. That's a very artsy thing.

Mine is just lazy.

Chels, what if I did this with Luke? What if I didn't use the normal ornaments that we have that you have to put away and worry about? What if I went to Target, bought on clearance some Target ornaments, and then put them up on the tree, and then after it's all said and done, I'll just get rid of them and donate them.

You are more welcome to do whatever you want as long as you pick up after yourself. Okay. And this has been an over-20-year discussion with us. You want to do it, please, by all means, do it. Okay. But you are in charge of picking it up.

What I figured is it would be something fun for Luke and I to do together. We can do a dad. How about this? You too. Oh, my God. We'll do a dad-son tree together, and then when you come home from Jingle Ball, from Joe's Jingle Ball on Friday, you'll come home to a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. Can't wait. She likes our tree because she likes just having the lights on in the room, and it made me think to myself, why don't I just get extra lamps? You know what I mean? It's not the same She likes just having a tree up With just lights on it Because it's simple It's so pretty

Didn't the kids make decorations When they were in school

Those things long ago were gone

See, those are my favorite

Where are those? Well, where are the sentimental ones? Because we don't have those We have like the beautiful brown bulbs Or whatever

They're in a box That I'm afraid to take out Because I don't want them to get ruined I want to give them to them When they're older We have those

Ah, jeez

They're put away You know, in the storage room that you never go to Where all the stuff is that I have to take care of

You make it to the listeners seem like I do nothing, Chels

Okay No, she makes it seem like you do nothing well

Jordan, what's going on? It's Mojo in the morning, hello

So I'm not allowed to wrap presents or decorate the tree either Because my wife says I look like a three-year-old when I do it Oh, um, if Chelsea is worried about you breaking Christmas ornaments, you need an ornament box. It's like a, looks like a big egg carton in that cradle.

Yeah. Walmart at the container store.

Okay. That's not a bad idea. We're going to get those at like a Target or something?

Again, if you go in our storage room where the ornaments are, you'll see we have those.

Oh, we already have those. Okay. All right.

I'll go check them out. And you're still not allowed to be?

Oh, no.

Well, if you trip down the steps and drop that box, it's not going to protect them all.

Is there anybody that will let me come to their house and help them decorate their Christmas tree? There you go.

Anyone listening who hasn't realized Mojo's potential yet.

Here's the thing. If you say yes, he'll show up. Three minutes later, he'll get bored and he'll leave.

Yeah, that's true. That actually happened. Remember the one year? Tell us there was another year that we were all faced with, like, everybody getting sick. I said I would decorate the tree, and we only did half of the tree. And you came out and you go, do you realize that only half the tree is decorated? I go, yeah, but you can't see the other half. And she goes, I just saw it.

You also decorate your tree really late. My wife's kind of like, Megan, she'll decorate like after Thanksgiving.

But you have to understand something. The reason we decorated it so late was because I was too lazy to go get the tree from downstairs. That's all my fault, so thank you.

Well, I have a suggestion for Chelsea. I'm not going to say this happened to me before, but why doesn't she say you decorate half the tree and I'll do the other half when I get back and only do the front half that everybody sees. And then when Chelsea gets back, just spin the tree. And then technically he just decorated the back of the tree against the wall that nobody will see.

Yeah, that's it.

Chelsea, all right, I will talk to you. Are you excited to go see Joe again? You've seen this kid three times in the last, like, month. Like, honestly, I hate to say this, with him moving away and Jacob being away, I feel like I'm seeing my kids too much these days. This is unbelievable. No, just wait next year when it's just the two of us. I know. When Luke goes out to college, you get to hang out with me. I'll let you decorate my tree.

Okay, that's disgusting and I'm already very proud.

All right, I love you. I'll talk to you later.

Bye. Hey, everybody. I'm Tarika Foster-Brasby. What's up, y'all? I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoops. When you tune in to a new episode of our podcast, Levels to This, you're definitely going to get some spicy WNBA analysis. But we're more than just hoops. And the real conversation is what we actually bring.

It's been really, really cool seeing kind of these women just really step into their power off the court and understand that they are basketball, right? And they're not asking for permission.

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I've been hearing for decades that the markets can solve climate change. Today, we have more incentives for market solutions than ever, and emissions are rising. On this season of Drilled, Carbon Cowboys, the story of three market solutions colliding in one multinational boondoggle.

You gotta give Bruce and the guys credit. They're Republican kids. They don't give a s*** of money.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.